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knowldged to be very competent judges 
o} the fine arrs. Notwithitanding all this, 
it was fairly enough objected to, confider= 
ing the few he then exhibited as fpecimens 
by wh.ch the fpectaror could form a judg- 
ment of the whole, that, though the old 
a.iage, Ex pede Herculem, applied very well 
to an ancient ftatue, it was not quite fo 
conclufive when brought as the teft of a 
galery of piétures; all of which fhould 
be feen before a fair eltimate could be made 
of either their merit or value. In confe- 
quence of this, the Count has now brought 
them a!l to England, and fome idea of 
their worth may be formed, when it is 
itated, that the duties charged upon them, 
ad valorem, at the cuftom-houfe, amount- 
ed to more than four, theufand pounds ; 
which, added to the expence of bringing 
them from Vieuna to London, and ereéting 
the building in which they are now’exhi- 
biting, brings the whole amount of their 
removal from Germany, and exhibition to 
the public in this metropolis, to upwards 
of twelve thoufand guineas... The buud- 
ing is lighted from the top, and very well 
calculated for difplaying them; there are 
eight different rooms appropriated to 
more than eight hundred moft capital pic- 
tures of the German, Flemifb, Dutch, Spa- 
nifo, Italian, and French matters, arranged 
according. to their -refpétive {chools. 
The pictures are not numbered in the 
maoner cufomary at exhibitions in this 
country, but the name of the painter being 
intcribed over each, the reference to the 
ca’alogue is eafy ; and the catalogue is 
aiphabetically arranged, and contains fome 
little biographical notices of each artift. 
Among them are very many pictures moft 
admiraoly panied, by matiers whofe 
names have been fearcely ever heard of 
in this country. But this will not appear 
ex'raordinary, when it is confidered, that, 
although we feldom hear mention of any 
Spanifh painters,except Vela/ques, Rideira, 
and Muriilia, yet Palomino, in his Treatife 
on the Arts, has interted the Lives of two 
hundred and thirty three Spain:fh painters 
and feulptors, whe were defervecly dif- 
tingu thed, from the time of Ferdinand tbe 
Catiolic, tothe reign of Philip I7. Though 
the public are poficifed of volagrinous me- 
moirs of the artiés of Italy, France, and 
Flanders, and hive, by-the uni ed labours 
of Georse Vertue and the laie Mr. Horace 
oy alpole, many earertaining anecdotes of 
ti'e of Axgland, yet of the German 
pacers we are comparatively ignorant. 
Ovor room will not permit even an enu-. 
meration of many. leating pictures in this 
mo {plendid cui'2tion 3 we. fhall only 
notice a few of them, and,after fome flight 
Account of the Truchfals Gallery. 
[O&,. ly 
remarks on the German fchool, rnft reo 
ferve our critique on the principal works, 
for another Retrolfpeét. There are two 
. Portraits by Denner.—Two of Kitchen- 
Urenfils by Dichtell—C. W. E. Die- 
trich 1.—Ferg 4.—By Heinrich Frederic 
Fuger, Direétor of the Imperial Cabinet 
at Vienna 2.—By Hans Holbein 3.—Ge- 
rard Laireffe 4.—By Sibilla Marian, the 
famous flower - painter 1—By Hans 
Mouitichen, 8 curious pieces of antiquity 
painted in 1434, about the time when 
painting in ot] was firft invented.—Adrian 
Oftade 2.—Pfeyl 5.—Sambach 8.—By 
Seybold, there are two portraits of Him- 
felf, and one of an Old Lady, with a 
k trimmed with Fur, fo exa&ly re- 
fembling nature as to be almoft a decep- 
tion. Nicholas Berghem 2.—Jan Both 2. 
Antonio Vandyck 7.—Adrien Brouwer 
3-—Gerard Douw 2.—-Jan Fyt, one of 
Sea-fiith, that abfolutely feem wet from 
the water; a chained Maftiff, moft afto- 
nifhingly painted, and 4 others.—Frank 
Hals 3.—B. Vanderhelft 4.—E. Hemf- 
kirk 2,—Hondchooter 3.—Gerard Hou- 
tharft 4..—Albert Kuyp 4.—Jan Mole- 
naer, whofe pictures fetch fuch prices 
that in Holland he is commonly call-— 
ed Minz Molenaer, 7. e. Molenaer 
the Minter 1.—Moucheron 4.—Polen- 
burgh 1.—Paul Potter 2.—Rembrandt | 
Van Rhyn 8.—Rubens 5.—J. Ruyfdael 6. 
—Schelcker 1.—FrancisSneyers (Snyders) 
two wonderfully fine piétures 10 feet 10 
by 6 feet 5, of a wounded Stag attacked 
by Dogs; and, as a companion, a Wild 
Boar ina fimilar fituation; and another,” 
of Birds of Prey attacking Ducks. By 
David Teniers, jun. there are 53 one 
of them, of a Chemift in his Laboratory, 
might ferve for a ftudy to a painter, com- 
prifing almoft every branch of the execu- 
ive part of the art.—Adrian Vandevelde 
4.—Jan Weenix 4.—Wynants 1.—Be- 
lucci 2. Agoftino Caracci r.—Annibale 
Caracci 2.—Ludovico Caracci 1:—Co- 
rezgio 1.—Amiconi 2.—Michael Angelo 
Caraggio 1.—Guido Rheni 3.—Schi- 
‘done 2.—j. Callot 1.—Claude Lorrain 2. 
—Pillement 3.—Gefpar Pouflin 2.—Ni- 
cheias Pouffin 3.—-Vernet 3.—Watteau 2. 
The two firt rooms into which we are 
introduced at this great repofitory of the 
arts, are devoted to the German [choo] ; 
and they will raife the character of that 
fchool to rather a higher {cale than it has 
hitherto obtained in this nation. For 
their tafte inxthe di/pofition of their figures, 
or that general air which attracts and faf- 
cinates the eye at firft glance, they are 
not entitled to much praife—but in their 
minute attention to every feature of the 
face, 
